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title: (Snelling's) "Tales of the Northwest," p. 286. note 15. — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: (Snelling's) "Tales of the Northwest," p. 286. note 15. Who acts: Northwest. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 150

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(Snelling's) "Tales of the Northwest," p. 286. note 15.

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**Who acts:** Northwest · **What happens:** tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Northwest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:21:150
# text = (Snelling's) "Tales of the Northwest," p. 286. note 15.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Snelling	Snelling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Northwest	Northwest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	286	286	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
15	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
16	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **tell** *in a quote* |  | the Northwest |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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